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The Steel Casebook: Prisoners 7

What is it for a Glitch to know fear? I have felt it before, of course; it is a side effect of the severing. But this, this is different. The more I take in the history of the prison, piecing together events from scrawled messages and disrepair, the more I begin to feel human.

This species, these humans, are lost and adrift in the universe. Would it not make sense that even their very souls, if such a thing exists, cannot find peace? They have an emotional range quite unlike that of any other species; a conflicting, terrible sea of confusion.